Air traffic control boss says he was ‘most disliked person in the UK’ after flight chaos

The boss of Nats, the UK's air traffic control provider, has said he was the most disliked person in the UK after air traffic control systems failed twice in September, causing chaos for hundreds of thousands of passengers.

Martin Rolfe told an aviation industry conference that he had ignored calls from Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary to quit over the system outages, which disrupted flights across the UK and Europe.